Provenance
Private collection, Rome; (Sestieri's, Rome); (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi, Florence); sold July 1948 to the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, New York;[1] gift 1952 to NGA.
[1] The Kress Foundation made an offer to Contini Bonacossi on 7 June 1948 for a group of twenty-eight paintings, including _The Death of Saint Anthony_; the offer was accepted on 11 July 1948 (see copies of correspondence in NGA curatorial files, see also The Kress Collection Digital Archive, https://kress.nga.gov/Detail/objects/2141).
Accession Number
1952.5.73
Medium
tempera on poplar panel
Dimensions
painted surface: 36.2 x 38.1 cm (14 1/4 x 15 in.) | overall size: 37.5 x 39.4 cm (14 3/4 x 15 1/2 in.) | framed: 52.1 x 54 x 7.6 cm (20 1/2 x 21 1/4 x 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Credit Line
Samuel H. Kress Collection
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